Does anyone Watercooled their system?

Discussion in 'Overclocking, Cooling & Modding' started by Streetboost, Dec 3, 2002.

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  1. Streetboost

    Streetboost Newbie

    just wondering wether there are people here who had gone to that stage yet....i'm short of cash but i planned to put one!! im sick and tired of my loud delta..... :lol:
     
    Streetboost, Dec 3, 2002
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  2. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    I've been watercooling my system for a few years now... :)
     
    Chai, Dec 3, 2002
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  3. peaz

    peaz ARP Webmaster Staff Member

    Yup, I've also been using water cooling for almost a year now. It's the best cooling solution I've had so far. Noiseless and keeps the temps stable! :D
     
    peaz, Dec 3, 2002
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  4. Streetboost

    Streetboost Newbie

    while you we're water cooling your system ..i'm saving up cash here.....
    yeah water cooling is out there for a year plus already.btw are you guys all malaysians?not much active users here huh?well i hope it grows and more reviews could be done..i could help you guys out by doing some reviews, but i'm too lazy to type and take pics. :lol:
     
    Streetboost, Dec 4, 2002
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  5. ALstonLoong

    ALstonLoong Newbie

    well ....i think water cooled is waste of money. With a good water cooled , i think at least have to spend around 600 RM. If you are running a p4 or even athlon, get a alpha or other bettter heatsink is good enough. How much ? maybe is just 100 bucks RM. With 600 RM , why dont i get a better higher cpu. Why ppl overclock ? try to get more performance by paying minimum amount of money.

    Just my opinion....
     
    ALstonLoong, Dec 6, 2002
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  6. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    True, water cooling is for 'enthusiast'. It's like why buy a Ferrari when you can get similar performance from a BMW M5. I know it's a bad example, but you should know what I mean. Many people are getting water cooling because it's quiet and efficient.

    I wouldn't stop recommending people, but if you can't afford it, don't buy one, because it's not necessary.
     
    Chai, Dec 6, 2002
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  7. ALstonLoong

    ALstonLoong Newbie

    Well...i will only recommand water cool to advance user. Water cool is a dangerous setup. Once you are not paying attention, your hardware will expose to water. Beside that, sometimes we have to mod our case to fit in a water cooling kit. Water cooling actually is a very good cooling solution . I really hope in future water cooling can be more affortable and able to get water cool cases with affortable price. I seen a external water cooling kits from koolence. Not too bad just abit pricy.
     
    ALstonLoong, Dec 7, 2002
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  8. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    I wouldn't say watercooling is dangerous. If you follow instruction properly, it's not any more dangerous than installing a heatsink. :)
     
    Chai, Dec 7, 2002
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  9. PY 222

    PY 222 <b>DF King</b>

    There are more points of failure in a watercooling setup.

    Pumps, joints, fan, radiator, hose and WATER!

    With heatsink, its just the fan and the occasion "OOps I did not install the heatsink correctly and now I have chipped the core! DAMn".

    But I think it is really COOL if you are a hardware guy and you know what you are doing. EXAMPLE ----&gt; Chai :lol:
     
    PY 222, Dec 7, 2002
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  10. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    This is not a good example! :lol:

    The only part I'm worried about is pump, because it's the only mechanical (moving) item in the whole system, wait, I forgot about the fan too :)

    You forgot about 'snapping the socket lugs' :)
     
    Chai, Dec 7, 2002
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  11. peaz

    peaz ARP Webmaster Staff Member

    Hmm, it true that Water cooling is a tad too expensive now.

    Howeverm i believe that it can be cheaper as the parts are not particular hard to manufacture. The only thing that it's not a mainstream choice for cooling yet. Too many components i guess???

    hehe. but once's its popular. I pretty sure prices will drop really fast

    as for pump failure etc... i once forgot to turn on the pump... guess what?? my TB was at about 80C!!!! man. lucky it didn't burn off at all!!! Lucky me i guess!
     
    peaz, Dec 8, 2002
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  12. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Wow, 80C!!! My processor would have crashed by then! :D My processor is running really close to its limit, at 50C it will crash anytime!
     
    Chai, Dec 8, 2002
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  13. ALstonLoong

    ALstonLoong Newbie

    lol 50C ? wow ...thats hot !
     
    ALstonLoong, Dec 8, 2002
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  14. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    No no. I meant it will crash at 50C+. It runs at low 40s, and during the hot afternoons mid 40s. An air cooler would do as well, but at the same noise level? Not even close. :)
     
    Chai, Dec 8, 2002
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  15. peaz

    peaz ARP Webmaster Staff Member

    YuP... it was really at 80c when i checked at the BIOS.... :D immediately turned off the power !!!

    Crazy. But lucky it survived
     
    peaz, Dec 10, 2002
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  16. ALstonLoong

    ALstonLoong Newbie

    you lucky piggy piggy ! thank god your TB is not burn at 80c
     
    ALstonLoong, Dec 11, 2002
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  17. peaz

    peaz ARP Webmaster Staff Member

    Oh yeah I thank god a hundred times that day!!!

    Imagine, I actually managed to boot into windows and ran a program setup, which crashed halfway defore i discovered the pump was not on!!!

    :p lucky the water block was a huge chunck of copper!
     
    peaz, Dec 11, 2002
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  18. itld

    itld Newbie

    howdy,
    this is my first post on this board so allow me to introduce myself
    i am an iron worker with a mechanical engineering back ground and have been messing with PC's for about 20 years. my first box was a PC clone 4.77 Zenith Z80
    my present box is

    • ASUS A7M266-D
      Dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+
      2@512 mb DDr ECC ram
      GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb
      40Gb 7200 rpm - win 2K pro
      20GB - Linux SuSE
      and a basic set up of CDRW etc.

    right now my proc temps are

    • CPU0 47c
      CPU1 45c

    an hour with Q3A will raise the temp about 4c each
    i cool with Thermaltake Volcano 6Cu+ heatsink/fans, i am concidering watercooling but i cant find a comercial system that will handle dual proc's. that said i may just build my own.

    M.R.
     
    itld, Dec 19, 2002
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  19. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Welcome! :)

    Most waterblocks in the market should work in a dual processors system. Here is one example.
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    Since you are cooling 2 processors at a time, you may need a more powerful radiator to dissipate the heat properly.
     
    Chai, Dec 19, 2002
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  20. itld

    itld Newbie

    howdy,
    WOW very cool.
    i cant see the manufacture name on the blocks, can you tell me who makes that system??

    M.R.
     
    itld, Dec 19, 2002
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